Prepare for the surprises leadership will throw at you
Staged practice to help you navigate the unexpected challenges of front-line leadership.
Feeling Ready to Tackle Tomorrow?
How well prepared do you feel to tackle the range of challenges you face?
Since you've started as a front-line leader, has your day ever started with an unexpected jolt? Say, your most productive team member has accepted another job?
As a Team Lead, you face complex situations full of conflicting agendas, organizational pressures, and real human feelings. And, whatever challenges arise, you do your best to help your team thrive.
Even if your team is running smoothly today, you know that some new challenge will surface tomorrow. Perhaps:
Two team members erupt in conflict.
A key project falls behind.
A senior leader goes around you to ask a team member for unplanned work.
Leadership Lenses
When faced with a challenge, how skillfully do you identify what to prioritize?
You could try to read up on leadership, but readings can be difficult to connect to experience. Or, you could seek training but most courses are either too narrow to cover the range of challenges you face or so thin you feel left barraged by a firehose of information.
You need a way to boild it down.
Our approach? We think of this as choosing which of 9 "leadership lenses" to use in a situation.
THE LEADERSHIP LENSES
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LEAD THE TEAM
Align
Develop Team
Team Health
Manage Up
Drive Action
Nurture Agility
CREATE THE ENVIRONMENT
Clarify Reality
Build Trust
Manage Your Journey
Coached Practice to the Rescue
How can you learn to prioritize which lenses to apply?
Airplane pilots prepare for unexpected situations by practicing. Why don't you?
Team Lead Challenges confronts you with a new case every other week.
How It Works
Each week, you'll receive a request from a simulated team lead who faces a challenge.
- Your immediate goal: advise them.
- Your deeper goal: help them elevate their leadership thinking.
STEP 1
INTERVIEW
Interview the team lead to help them diagnose their challenge.
Can you frame it in terms of the Leadership Lenses?
STEP 2
ADVISE
Advise them and address their questions about your suggestions.
Have you addressed the most critical Leadership Lenses?
STEP 3
REVIEW
Review a scorecard summarizing how you did.
Did you anticipate the ratings and feedback you received?
STEP 4
REFLECT
Discuss with an automated coach and identify how you can act on new insights.
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